Business first; pleasure afterwards.

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.